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mostly been dispensed by anonymous sources. “He’s a joke, plain
and simple,” said one “senior GOP
aide.” Another House GOP aide
told the National Review Online
that “Nancy Pelosi is more wellliked around here.”
One of Cruz’s fellow Republicans who has been brave enough
to attach his name to his remarks
is Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who
told reporters that Cruz was a
“fraud” who should “no longer
have any influence in the Republican Party.” As CNN reported, King
continued like so:
“We can’t be going off on these
false missions that Ted Cruz
wants us to go on. The issues are
too important. They’re too serious, they require real conservative
solutions, not cheap headlinehunting schemes,” he said.
But where is all this coming
from? It’s actually pretty much
high school-level clique-histrionics, actually. And more than anything else, it’s a battle between
the House and the Senate over
who will be left holding the Defund Obamacare Futility Bomb
when it finally goes off.
Obviously, just about every GOP
legislator, given the opportunity,
would defund Obamacare tomor-
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row if there was a possibility they
could do so. And, in fact, they’ve
tried some 40-odd times. One
might question whether doing so is
good policy, but none should question the desire of Republican policymakers to gut President Barack
Obama’s landmark achievement.
The thing is, though, Cruz sort
of did. Cruz was one of the GOP
leaders who first hatched the plan
to threaten taking the government
‘He’s a joke, plain and
simple,’ said one ‘senior GOP
aide.’ Another House GOP
aide told the National Review
Online that ‘Nancy Pelosi is
more well-liked around here.’”
hostage over Obamacare. Birthing that notion immediately gave
House Speaker John Boehner (ROhio) — whose preference is to
avoid a government shutdown — a
huge migraine. But Cruz didn’t
stop there. He appeared in ads for
the Senate Conservatives Fund,
haranguing his fellow senators “to
stand up and defund Obamacare
now.” As Jackie Kucinich noted,
the fact that he did so while simultaneously serving as the vice